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Google Webmaster Tools Now Provides Broader & More Diverse Link Data

Published on 2013/09/12 By admin

Google announced today that the link data within Google Webmaster Tools is much broader, more diverse cross-section of links. What does that mean?

Google’s Matt Cutts: Nofollow Links Won’t Hurt You Unless You Are Spamming At A Huge Scale

Published on 2013/09/09 By admin

In a video released today on the Google Webmaster Help YouTube channel, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts said: typically, links that are nofollowed can’t hurt your rankings in Google. That being said, while most cases are that links that have the nofollow attribute on them will…

Google: We Prefer To Assess Reconsideration Requests On Links Within Webmaster Tools However…

Published on 2013/08/15 By admin

What do webmasters do when receiving a manual action from Google telling them they have a penalty because of paid or bad links pointing to their site? Google told us back in June that we should use Google’s “links to your site” report within Webmaster Tools to analyze bad links pointing to our…

Google: Links In Press Releases Should Use Nofollow Like Paid Links

Published on 2013/07/30 By admin

Friday we broke the news that Google updated their link schemes webmaster guidelines. Now that the dust has settled, I aimed at getting more clarification on what Google meant by the new example around keyword-rich anchor text links within articles or press releases.

Google Warns Against Large-Scale Guest Posting, Advertorials & “Optimized Anchor Text” In Press Releases

Published on 2013/07/26 By admin

Google has quietly updated the link schemes document under their Webmaster guidelines to add large-scale guest posting, advertorials and optimized anchor text in articles or press releases to the list of types of links that violate their guidelines. The new guideline examples that were added to…